“My favorite Pokémon is
Mew and I used to moderate a Pokémon forum,” Rousey told Reddit
in her AMA introduction. She went on to reveal a few of her other
favorite pastimes that you might not expect of a champion UFC
fighter, including that she is an active player on World of
Warcraft, a mage on TaichiPanda, and that she is reading the
third Game of Thrones book, “A Storm of Swords.”

Rousey also answered a few Pokémon-related
questions in the comments. After being asked what type of Pokémon
she would want to fight in the UFC Octagon,
Rousey answered, “Throh — because he’s the Judo Pokémon and
would challenge me the most.”

Reddit users
were impressed that Rousey was familiar with Throh who
is in the fifth generation of the game, which means he was
not a part of the original 151 Pokémon characters. Only serious
players who had kept up with the game, like Rousey has, would be
familiar with Throh.

Fans were impressed by Rousey's love for Pokémon, Game
of Thrones, and Dragon Ball.Reddit

Fans of Rousey know this isn’t anything new for
her. After she revealed that she had previously been a moderator
on GameTalk.com,
people dug up her old user profile that she wrote when
she was 16. It was a pretty great read:

Ronda
Rousey's original GameTalk.com profile that she wrote when she
was 16.Reddit

More recently in September 2014, she was stopped
at a red carpet event and asked a question about Pokémon by
the YouTube channel MMA Fighting. Instead of brushing off
the question, Rousey went on a nearly three-minute-long monologue
about her history with Pokémon.

“I got the trading cards first, my first trading
card was a Dragonair,” she told MMA Fighting. “And then I got the
video game — I got it on GameBoy color. And my first one was
Pokémon Blue and my first Pokémon was a Charmander and I was
immediately hooked on it. I lost a bunch of weight that summer —
and I was a small kid — because I would not stop paying."

“I’ve gotten every single version of every
single generation of the game,” she continued. “So like when blue
came out, I didn’t just get blue and wait for silver, no. I got
blue, I beat blue, I got red, I beat red, I got yellow, I beat
yellow. And then when gold, silver, and platinum came out, I got
all three of those and beat those. Just that first game that I
have alone, that one cartridge, had 200 hours on it. I’ve since
done every single generation and every single Pokémon [game]
since. The Platinum, the white, the black, the X, the Y, X2, Y2,
Pokémon Stadium, and Pokémon Stadium 2."

At the end of the video, Rousey’s rep had to
lead her away — she still wasn’t done discussing Pokémon and she
was scheduled to give other interviews.